We’ve Been Meaning To Tell You…

May 8, 2012

Travel For Boomers.com, or TFB as we like to call it, has new ownership: Christine Krzyszton and Kim Weiss. With this new ownership, we are bringing what we hope are many positive changes to the blog. One of the first changes you may have noticed is our format. We want you to have a consistent [...]

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MAKE MY MONDAY: Deals and Specials. Plus: The Question of the Weekend Winner!

May 7, 2012

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13th. Have you ordered your flowers plus bonus miles and points yet? Teaming up with airlines, FTD, Telaflora, and l-800-FLOWERS want to reward you for sending your love and flowers to all the moms in your life with the things we travel fanatics love almost as much as Mom: miles [...]

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Question Of The Weekend Gift Card Contest

May 5, 2012

This week’s Question of the Weekend focuses on airline status. If you’re going to get the perks of traveling in style, the best way to do it is through “butt-in-seat” miles to reach the airline’s elite levels. So this weekend’s four-part question is: Are you shooting for status with any airline alliance this year? What [...]

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Collecting Miles — The Kind You Can’t Redeem

May 4, 2012

By Bill Morris Getting free travel and other neat stuff by redeeming miles is one of the more popular manias of our time. And of course the idea of something-for-nothing (or just a few hidden fees) has an appeal. The success of our Travel For Boomers blog pretty much proves that. I’m a member of [...]

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Seeing The World In A Weekend: Honolulu, Part 2

May 3, 2012

By Christine Krzyszton I have a new respect for Honolulu as I get to know more of the people there. I always thought of it as just another big city with a great location (on a beach). This weekend changed my view of the city tremendously. Then we attended the 10th Annual Waikiki Spam Jam. [...]

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Seeing The World In A Weekend: Honolulu, Part 1

May 2, 2012

By Christine Krzyszton Honolulu, Hawaii, rocks for a lot of reasons:  its famous beaches, that turquoise water, those surfers, the fabulous shopping, superb international cuisine, and its unique culture.  While I have visited several times before, on this particular trip I brought along a friend who used to live there so I was excited to [...]

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Yes, It’s A Fabulous Hotel — But Is Breakfast Included?

May 1, 2012

By Jan Ross I took a bite of the delicious hot pancakes that had just been delivered to my table at Paulette’s Restaurant in the River Inn of Harbor Town in Memphis, Tennessee. Not only were they cooked to perfection and perfectly wonderful, I also felt pretty smug about my breakfast because it was free. [...]

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Make My Monday! Deals and Specials. And the Question of the Week Winner

April 30, 2012

From United MileagePlus: Explore the world and earn up to 25,000 bonus award miles. Register, purchase and fly 5 round trips on United by July 15, 2012. The more you fly, the more you earn. When you fly 2 roundtrips you get 5000 bonus miles, 3 roiund trips for 10,000 bonus award miles, and 5 [...]

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Question of the Weekend Gift Card Contest

April 28, 2012

It’s Saturday again so it must be time to play Question of the Weekend, your chance to win a $25 gift card from American Express or Visa. This weekend we have a two-part question. Here we go… What is your plan for obtaining frequent flier miles and how do you plan to use them? For [...]

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The Will To Travel, The Dollars To Do It: How To Stash Some Cash For A Getaway

April 27, 2012

By Christine Krzyszton Didn’t get to take a spring vacation last year? Was your face pressed against the window as you watched the neighbors pull out of their driveway, on their way to New Orleans, New York or Hawaii? Was that a little tear running down your cheek? Snap out of it and don’t even [...]

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